Throughout time, women have not been recognized for the work they do while their …show more content…
As depicted by Evelyn Dunbar, the painting shows women baling hay, with no presence of man. By the time WW2 begun, the “expected” roles of women changed. Since men went off to fight, women took traditionally male dominated jobs. Jobs during the WW2 era included nearly 350,000 American women enlisting in the Armed services ("American Women and World War II."). Women worked repairing airplanes, providing care to soldiers as nurses, and flying planes from base to base. In the less war-stricken areas, women were chemists, engineers, weapon builders, etc. (“Striking Women"). Fighting criticism and cultural resistance, women strived in the workforce doing jobs that men were currently unable to do. As stated before, without women supporting and doing work for the war and outside of the war, things would be